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Susan S. Levine: Loving Psychoanalysis: Technique and Theory in the Therapeutic RelationshipEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0244-yAuthors Cathy Siebold, 128 East 91st A3 New York NY USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Celia Brickman: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in PsychoanalysisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0242-0Authors Elizabeth Kita, Smith College Northampton MA UK Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Mandatory Reporting and Child Exposure to Domestic Violence: Issues Regarding the Therapeutic Alliance with CouplesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Some child welfare legislation have recently expanded the definition of ‘a child in need of protection’ to include child exposure to intimate partner violence. Such legislation places clinicians in the challenging position of determining whether a situation falls under their duty to report. The current paper examines a case example in which there was child exposed to intimate partner violence, the clinician made a report to child welfare authorities and attempted to maintain the therapeutic alliance with the couple in treatment. The couple viewed contacting child welfare authorities as a crisis ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

K. Gentile: Creating Bodies: Eating Diorders as Self-Destructive SurvivalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0243-zAuthors F. Diane Barth, Private Practice 102 W. 85th St #5H New York NY 10024 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Latino Clinical Perspective on Montalvo’s Ethnoracial Gap in Clinical Practice with LatinosEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory CommentaryDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0231-3Authors Kurt C. Organista, University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare 120 Haviland Hall Berkeley CA 94720-7400 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Ethnoracial Gap in Clinical Practice with LatinosEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract People of color drop out of mental health treatment after the first session significantly more often than others. Social workers unfamiliar with the importance of race and ethnicity in the lives of Latinos can contribute to an ethnoracial gap in clinical practice. Implicit racial bias is presented as a key element contributing to the gap. The origin of phenotypes in Mexico and Puerto Rico prepared Latinos to cope with discrimination and colorism in United States. The influence of skin color on life chances, the acculturation–assimilation process, and psychological well-being are analyzed to identi...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Affirmative Practice and Alternative Sexual Orientations: Helping Clients Navigate the Coming Out ProcessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article focuses on how clinicians can aid clients throughout the coming out process in a way that affirms the full range of sexual orientations. Following an overview of alternative sexual orientations and models of the coming out process, a case example is used to illustrate how clinicians can help clients address three challenges of coming out: overcoming internalized biases; clarifying their sexual orientation and identity; and making decisions about disclosure. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0240-2Authors Natalie L. Hill, BayRidge Hospital Lynn, MA, 60 Granite St...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Parent and Peer Attachment in Minority Males at High Risk for DelinquencyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Juvenile delinquency and high risk behaviors have been linked to disturbances in attachment. The present study examined parent and peer attachment in 67 African American males and 97 Latinos (ages 12–17, M = 14.7 ± 1.3) attending an alternative school. The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment was used to identify 3 attachment style groups: “Isolated,” “Disconnected,” and “Connected.” Controlling for age, attachment group membership predicted differences in delinquent behaviors, as did ethnicity. Further, on the Youth Self-Report of the Child Behavior Checklist, ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Frozen in Time: Idealization and Parent-Blaming in the Therapeutic ProcessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article suggests that both idealization of and critical feelings about parents can serve as defenses against other painful emotions and both are developmentally necessary. Contemporary neurobiological and attachment research indicate that “talk therapy” helps individuals manage emotions. This work can be derailed if anger is privileged over idealization. Clinical examples illustrate these ideas and show how unpacking both critical and overly positive attitudes can encourage development. Clients increase their capacity to tolerate a wider range of feelings, maintain a consistent and cohesive sense of self, and ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 20, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

The Impact of Parent, Child, and Therapist Mental Representations on Attachment-Based Intervention with Prepubertal ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article remedies this lack by discussing the potential intervention points of entry with prepubertal children based on attachment theory. In contrast to attachment-based early intervention, in which parental characteristics are targeted, attachment-based intervention with prepubertal children must include the child as well as the parents. Therapists attempting such an intervention must take into account the quality of the child’s mental representation as well as their own quality of mental representation to provide an effective clinical experience. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.100...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - October 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

A Reconsideration of the Object in the Attachment Process: An Alternative View of Development and TreatmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract This paper reconsiders the commonly accepted definition of object and suggests an alternative conceptualization of the attachment process. A treatment presentation is offered to clarify these considerations. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0236-yAuthors Crayton E. Rowe, New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology 230 West End Avenue, Suite 1D New York 10023-3662 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - September 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Anxiety in Adolescence: The Integration of Attachment and Neurobiological Research into Clinical PracticeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Attachment theory illuminates aspects of adolescent development and points to critical treatment directions for adolescents. Recent neurobiological research illustrates the importance of integrating physiological understanding into clinical work. The application of attachment theory and neurobiology to treatment is illustrated best through the case example of one adolescent with panic disorder treated in an outpatient setting. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0235-zAuthors Joanna E. Bettmann, University of Utah College of Social Work 395 South 1500 East, ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - September 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

There’s No Place Like Home: Preparing Children for Geographical and Relational Attachment Disruptions Following Parental Death to CancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract The death of a parent precipitates a number of profound losses and transitions for children, disrupting their sense of safety and security. Children who have lost both parents or who, due to divorce, are relocating across great distances following the death of their custodial parent incur a number of profound secondary losses, including place attachment disruptions. Work with this population should aim to create a holding environment for children to normalize and validate their experiences while keeping them on track academically, socially, and psychologically. The paper will present two case studie...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - September 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Culture and Masculinity: When Therapist and Patient are Latino MenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We describe clinical and cultural reasons for various interventions, and their resulting outcome. The framework of a dynamic interpersonal therapy and the challenges of transference, countertransference, therapist disclosure, and working-through are covered. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0232-2Authors Luis H. Zayas, Washington University in St. Louis Center for Latino Family Research, George Warren Brown School of Social Work One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1196 St. Louis MO 63130-4899 USALuis R. Torres, University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Center for Dru...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - August 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Neurobiology and the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract This paper presents neurobiological aspects of the therapeutic action of psychoanalytic play therapy. The author contends that play integrates diverse modes of neural processing because of its inherently enactive and verbal nature. Admixtures of new and familiar self/other configurations emerge, simultaneously shaping and fostering integration of procedural and declarative modes of experience. Complex self-other configurations develop in play therapy because of its intrinsic integration of multiple experiential modes. The paper includes an illustration of play treatment with a boy who presented with...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - August 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Missing Pieces: Introduction to the Book Review SectionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Introduction to Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0227-zAuthors Judith Siegel, New York University Rockland Branch Campus, Silver School of Social Work New York NY USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - August 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Moral Residue: Difficult Ethical Choices in the Treatment of Refractory Anorexia NervosaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract The case of a 30-year-old woman with treatment refractory anorexia is presented through a first person narrative and countertransference experience. The case study attempts to explore how ethical treatment decisions are made, while also addressing how we live with those choices. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0230-4Authors Amy Lopez, University of Colorado Hospital Department of Psychiatry Anschutz Medical Campus, Building 500, 13001 E. 17th Ave Aurora CO 80045 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Sour...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Memory, Mourning and Meaning in a Psychotherapist’s LifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract In this paper the author, a psychotherapist specializing in bereavement, recounts her personal experiences of loss and the ways in which they intersect and inform her professional life. One clinical vignette explores how unresolved grief in a patient and anticipated grief in a therapist emerge in transference-counter-transference issues. Another vignette illustrates a way in which supportive therapy can open the door to intra-psychic work with the ill or dying patient and how psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy with the aged can help them to re-imagine their lives and to form different relatio...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Wrapping and Unwrapping Emotions: Clinical Practice with East Asian Immigrant EldersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Using the cultural norm of the way gifts are wrapped, unwrapped, and exchanged as a metaphor for interpersonal connections, this paper presents the way therapists can establish therapeutic relationships with East Asian clients who do not express emotions openly. We first discuss the ways in which emotions are conceptualized, experienced, and expressed in East Asian cultures. We then present vignettes of our work with older Chinese and Japanese immigrant women to illustrate the importance of therapist authenticity and co-construction of the therapeutic relationship. Using the framework of relational/...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

C. Wachs, L. Jacobs (eds): Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective FunctionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0224-2Authors Debra Olson-Morrison, University of Utah College of Social Work Salt Lake City UT USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

D. J. Siegel, M. Hartzell: Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who ThriveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0226-0Authors Brad Lundahl, University of Utah College of Social Work Salt Lake City UT 84121 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Attachment Repair in Couples Therapy: A Prototype for Treatment of Intimate RelationshipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract This paper describes a prototype for the treatment of intimate relationships that takes into account how to evaluate attachment styles in the couple relationship and in psychotherapy, and how to integrate this understanding into clinical practice. It is important for the couple’s therapist to understand attachment, its neurobiological underpinnings, and its origins in early development. Secure attachment in an adult relationship may be challenged if one or both partners have experienced disruption of a primary attachment relationship. The goal of successful treatment is to restore the normative gr...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Sue Gerhardt, Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s BrainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0223-3Authors Rachel Altamirano, University of Utah College of Social Work Salt Lake City UT USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Marion Solomon, Daniel Siegel (eds): Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and BrainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0225-1Authors Elizabeth Kita, Smith College Northampton MA USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Leniency Bias in Evaluating Clinical Social Work Student InternsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study tested leniency bias among field instructors of 90 clinical social work interns by comparing face-to-face and anonymous field instructors’ ratings of students’ knowledge, values, and skills. We also compared students’ own ratings to field instructors’ assessments. Results indicated little variance and consistently high ratings when field instructors evaluated face-to-face. There was greater variance and lower mean ratings when supervisors evaluated anonymously. Students’ self-assessments were the most critical and best matched the anonymous evaluations; whereas, the anonymous and face-to-face fiel...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

The Emotional Dance of AttachmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Conceptualized as an emotional dance between the child and the primary caregiver, this article summarizes the primary principles of attachment theory as they pertain to clinical practice. The development of the attachment relationship goes smoothly in a secure attachment because the caregiver and child are effectively attuned to one another’s needs. Insecure attachment, on the other hand, occurs when the emotional dance goes awry leaving both the caregiver and the child with an emotional void. The article summarizes current treatment models geared specifically toward helping parent–child dyads r...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Mindfulness and Cognitive Therapy in Depression Relapse Prevention: A Case StudyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Depression is the most commonly diagnosed mental illness in the United States with relapse rates as high as 80–90% in some circumstances (Chen et al. in Res Soc Work Pract 16(5): 500–510, 2006; Mintz et al. in Arch Gen Psychiatry 49: 761–768, 1992; Teasdale et al. in J Consult Clin Psychol 68(4): 615–623, 2000). Cognitive therapy (CT) and psychopharmacology have been the mainstays of treatment for depression and relapse prevention, yet relapse remains a significant risk of this mental illness (DeRubeis et al. in Arch Gen Psychiatry 62: 409–416, 2005; Meyer and Scott in Behav Cogn Psychother ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Becoming Each Other: A Single Case Exploration of Relational Consciousness in Couple TherapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores the lived experience of shared consciousness in the practice of “becoming the other” with a focus on therapy with one couple. The historical development of our understanding of consciousness as a relational phenomenon is addressed with particular attention to the observations, insights, and practices of Lev Vygotsky, George Herbert Mead, and Gregory Bateson, who have each contributed substantially to our understanding of mind as relationally experienced and constructed. The article explores implications for practice and future directions this methodology might take. Content Type Journal Ar...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Bruno Bettelheim and His Window to the SoulEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article is an attempt to keep some of Dr. Bettelheim’s most meaningful contributions from fading further into obscurity. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0218-0Authors William S. Meyer, Duke University Medical Center Departments of Psychiatry and Ob/Gyn 3812 Durham NC 27710 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 20, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Collective Wisdom: Integrating Recent Developments with Established Models in Couples TreatmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Guest Editor’s CommentsDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0216-2Authors Judith P. Siegel, New York University Silver School of Social Work New York NY USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

The Therapist as Psychobiological Regulator: Dissociation, Affect Attunement and Clinical ProcessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Dissociation is defined as a protective coping mechanism employed on a broad spectrum: from day-to-day “spacing out” to psychic numbing to multiplicity. A convergence of recent insights in traumatology, neuroscience, and developmental theory is reviewed. These findings all point to the importance of affect regulation in infant and child development and in the therapeutic relationship, where attunement to implicit communication is crucial. Using such relational and intersubjective organizing principles as the concept of enactment and Beebe and Lachmann’s (Infant research and adult treatment: Co...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

A Commentary on “Gender Perspectives in Cross-Cultural Couples”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract This commentary expands on Kellner’s article by discussing clinical practice with Asian and Euro-American couples. Differences in Western and traditional Asian cultural expectations around intimacy and styles of emotional expression can often lead to misunderstanding among couples. Therapy can also be a challenge for couples when they do not share the same first language. A therapist who only speaks English can inadvertently create an alliance with the partner whose first language is English. On the other hand, bilingual therapists who use both English and an Asian language in the session can face...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Gender Perspective in Cross-Cultural CouplesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores gender perspective in clinical work with couples whose romantic choices fall across cultural, racial and religious lines. A conceptual framework is presented to track the dimensions of differences between the two partners in intercultural couples (collective vs. individualistic). The article illustrates how emotional expressiveness, continuum of autonomy, gender differentiation, and sexuality play out in intimate cross-cultural relationships. It also shows how the embedded, culturally assigned gender beliefs and roles are addressed in treatment. Examples from the author’s clinical work are prese...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Disrupting Power and Privilege in Couples TherapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article synthesizes results from three qualitative research studies to propose a social justice approach for clinical practice with couples. Interventions are suggested to keep issues of power and privilege a central focus while addressing the ordinary issues partners present for therapy. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0211-7Authors Lynn Parker, University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work Denver CO 80209 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

C. Schwartz and M. Schulman (eds.): Sexual FacesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0212-6Authors Cathy Siebold, New York NY 10128 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

If I Am Not Straight or Gay, Who Am I?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explores ways of dealing with sexual identities that seems to provide a workable solution for women when they navigate and negotiate their lives as lesbians in a society dominated by heterosexual norms. The data sources are therapeutic conversations and followed-up interviews with ten women. The stories told by these women fail to fit the phases and the categorizations of the traditional coming out model. In handling dilemmas, ambiguity seems to be a resource to them. Their efforts and solutions are more in accordance with queer theory, when they navigate between dichotomies of homosexual/heterosexual, femi...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Richard Raubolt (ed.): Power Games: Influence, Persuasion, and Indoctrination in Psychotherapy TrainingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0209-1Authors Rachel Newcombe, International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, Board Member Eastsound WA USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

The Therapeutic Palette: A Guide to Choice Points in Integrative Couple TherapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article describes the Therapeutic Palette approach to couple therapy. The Palette is organized in terms of three domains: Time Frame (past vs. present vs. future), Degree of Directiveness, and Change Entry Point (emotions, thoughts, behavior, physiology), and assists clinicians to draw from different schools of therapy in a flexible and purposeful way. In contrast to more structured, sequential approaches to integrative therapy, the Therapeutic Palette is designed to allow shifts among different theories and practices within one session. A detailed case vignette illustrates the approach. Content Type Journal Ar...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Robert D. Stolorow: Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic and Philosophical ReflectionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0208-2Authors F. Diane Barth, 102 W. 85th St #5H New York NY 10024 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - April 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Sustained Empathic Focus and its Application in the Treatment of CouplesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Although all psychoanalytically informed approaches to couples therapy recognize the importance of underlying dynamics, there are important differences in the focus of the treatment. This paper suggests a focus that is based on a self-psychological/intersubjective viewpoint. Two concepts that exemplify this model, a sustained empathic focus and an appreciation of the experience of vulnerability, are discussed and applied to a couples session. What is emphasized in this material is a process of focusing on underlying vulnerability, affect and subjective experience. Content Type Journal ArticleCate...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - April 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Into the Wilderness—A Case Study: The Psychodynamics of Adolescent Depression and the Need for a Holistic InterventionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines adolescent depression from a psychodynamic perspective, and identifies the psychodynamics of adolescent depression as the affective correlates that stem from unresolved developmental conflicts, issues of separation/individuation, the search for identity and the development of the true self. This article presents wilderness therapy as a holistic intervention which can be used to address the intrapsychic, developmental and relational factors that give rise to adolescent depression. Wilderness therapy is a modality of mental health treatment that takes place outdoors and utilizes challenge and advent...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - April 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

The Self Regulation Model of Attachment Trauma and AddictionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract The self-regulation model (SRM) is introduced to inform the assessment and treatment of attachment trauma and addiction. By integrating Bowlby’s observations of attachment behaviors within a dialectical philosophy, addiction is seen as an attempt to regulate one’s attachment system in the service of adaptation. The SRM advances Bowlby’s observations by identifying the subsystems inherent to human self-regulation and adaptation: physiology, emotions, cognition, sense of self, interpersonal relatedness, and behavior. Evaluation of each subsystem provides a comprehensive self-regulation profile a...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - April 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Establishing the Preliminary Validity of Spiritual Eco-Maps with Native AmericansEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract The use of validated instruments is particularly important with populations of color such as Native Americans. Drawing upon the concept of social validity, this mixed method study validates an existing qualitative spiritual assessment instrument—spiritual eco-maps—using a sample of recognized experts in Native American culture (N = 50). The study identifies: (1) the degree of cultural consistency, strengths, and limitations of the spiritual eco-map concept, and (2) how the questions designed to help operationalize the concept might be improved to be more valid, relevant and consistent ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

On Becoming a Good Enough StepmotherEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Studies have shown that conflict over parent–child relationships are frequently at the root of stepfamily dissolution and that the stepmother/daughter relationship is the most problematic stepfamily relationship. This paper explores the stepmother–daughter relationship in the family where the biological mother is an active parent and discusses the unique challenges and internal conflicts that the stepmother confronts on entry into the family and its web of preexisting relationships and transferences. “An internal parental stance” which underlies “good enough” stepmothering is conceptuali...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Narrative Practice and Conflict Dissolution in Couples TherapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract This paper presents an approach to conflict dissolution through the story development of the lives of the partners. This activity includes the interruption of efforts to resolve difficulties through recourse to culturally venerated communicational processes; the erosion of exclusivity in couple relationships; and the adoption of other relational forms in ways that contributes to diversity of response in couple relationships. A case example with transcript excerpts illustrates this process. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original paperDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0192-6Authors Michael White, New ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Process-Centered Group SupervisionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article will present an experientially focused, process-centered approach to group supervision that may be used in practice and fieldwork settings, as well as in the classroom. The approach is derived from a combination of relational psychoanalytic theory, rooted in interpersonal and object relations theory, and social constructionism. Beginning with a review of the concepts of acting out, projective identification, and parallel process, this article will examine how these concepts are applicable to process-centered group supervision. A detailed description of the approach will be provided, along with a review of ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Commentary on Treatment of Infertile Couples Using Reproductive Technologies: A Complex MatrixEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract The impact of the reproductive technologies upon infertile couples who require them is both ubiquitous and profound. There is a confluence of issues that co-exist for women and men who use reproductive technologies which creates a complex matrix for both the analytically informed social work clinician and those seeking infertility treatment. The unique merger of life stage issues, identity issues, cultural pressures, and responses to the physical and emotional demands of the necessary technologies, serves to amplify the intensity of encounters in this analytic triad. Consideration of attachment theo...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Towards Body–Mind–Spirit Integration: East Meets West in Clinical Social Work PracticeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Contemporary trends in clinical practice are moving more toward an integrative approach that views the mind, the body and the spirit as inter-connected entities. There is an increasing interest in approaches that utilize physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual components in assessment and treatment. This paper presents an integrative body–mind–spirit approach in clinical social work practice which is informed by the Eastern philosophical traditions of Daoism, Buddhism, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Our work with a bereaved elderly woman is presented to illustrate how the three key inter...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Using an Anti-racist Framework for Assessment and Intervention in Clinical Practice with Families from Diverse Ethno-racial backgroundsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract Cultural competency and cultural sensitivity are now widely considered to be essential for clinical social work practice with individuals and families from diverse cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Failing to incorporate these concepts into clinical services can be harmful to clients, can fail to meet the needs of members of diverse ethnoracial communities, and can result in inappropriate services. Yet a sole focus on culture can obliterate our understanding of the consequences of race and racism on individuals and families. The use of a discursive anti-racist framework for assessment and in...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - February 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

David J. Wallin: Attachment in PsychotherapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0194-4Authors Brad Lundahl, University of Utah College of Social Work 395 South 1500 East, Room 101 Salt Lake City UT 84112 USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - February 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals